Fast Five Quiz: Borderline Personality Disorder

According to the DSM-5, borderline personality disorder is diagnosed on the basis of (1) a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and (2) marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in various contexts, as indicated by at least five of the following:

1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment (does not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in criterion 5)

2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation

3. Identity disturbance (markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self)

4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (does not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in criterion 5)

5. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior

6. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood

7. Chronic feelings of emptiness

8. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger

9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms

Read more about the criteria for borderline personality disorder.

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Cite this: Stephen Soreff. Fast Five Quiz: Borderline Personality Disorder - Medscape - Mar 09, 2021.